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The summit of this hill is located in a private forest Dunranhill Forest not Coillte accessed (with permission) at its entrance located at O2587902887A which allows a very easy accent over forest roads to within meters of the trig. Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/16083/

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Picture from eamonoc : Dunran Trig Hard or easy you choose!

Picture: Dunran Trig Hard or easy you choose!

Resist the call to crawl

by eamonoc 16 Apr 2014

Having read the others comments about Dunran Hill, and the fact that on a previous occasion I also drove around looking for access to this Hill. I started at O 24609 00899B was able to park car back in off road beside a farm entrance track. Across the road crossed a rusty gate and followed a short farm track into a very green fielld with some sheep grazing in the upper reaches went uphill to right hand corner of field and easily accessed the high ground beyond called Carrignamuck upper on OS sheet 56. Headed uphill to the corner of a forest at O 251 014C. I followed tha edge of this forest away to the righthand corner then keeping the edge of the forest on my left went steeply uphill to O 255 018D. Now on high heathery ground I headed in an easterly direction to Wicklores point O 26032 02021E. There is a large stone wall here which I easily crossed at a suitable low point and onto a large well made forest track. Looking at the dense forest in front of me and not relishing the thought of a painful 100mt crawl through, I headed downhill to the left on this track after about 100mts I followed a track to the right uphill through the trees and came out at summit area with no scratches sore knees or the like, The trig point is just off to the right of the high point of this track among some low sized gorse bushes. Great views in all direction from here followd upward route back to car. I am not sure if summit area is private and on Dunran Demense land. There were no warning signs about access issues at the large stone wall. Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/16012/

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Picture from wicklore : The summit lies beyond the dense forest

Picture: The summit lies beyond the dense forest

Difficult access route

by wicklore 12 Apr 2014

When researching the new 100m prominence list for MountainViews in 2012 I eventually came to Dunrahill. Despite driving around it twice I couldn't find a public access route up. I ended up in a a small boreen road to the south where a passing local man pointed me to a farm gate he said I could use to head up at O 25908 01155F. The gate was locked and there was a track beyond it. After about 300 metres I left the track and headed uphill to the left. I eventually reached a rocky plateau with a dense forest beyond. I entered the forest at O26032 02021E and I found it very difficult to get through. Dense prickly twigs poked at me and rough ground with a few rocky crags and drops had to be negotiated. There was some crawling and sliding under the densest areas of forest and wet ground and after a few hundred metres I emerged spluttering onto a forest track near the summit at 026022G 02098. The summit area has a network of tracks and is clear of trees. I had to wonder where the entrance to these tracks began on the public road below as I couldn't find it. There is a trig pillar at the summit at O26200 02256H. Fine views south to Wicklow Town and out to the Irish Sea and north to the two Sugarloafs, as well as to nearby Ballycurry. I returned by the same route generally, although I covered some new ground on the descent for variety Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/15988/

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Possible troublesome access

by Onzy 20 Apr 2014

Although I visited the area around this hill briefly about a month ago, driving right around it resulted in no immediately obvious route up. Not being particularly pushed on that occasion, I abandoned without even leaving the car and headed off somewhere else.

I have since been advised that any route to the hill appears to cross private land, even gardens, that there are a large number of security cameras in the area and that there is evidence of a commercial clay pigeon shooting operation on the hill. It seems visitors would be best advised to seek permission before attempting to climb this hill.

[Update: 20 April 2014 - issue seems resolved - we have now a number of successful routes up indicated on the page] Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/15897/

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Picture from wicklore : Hard-to -reach trig

Picture: Hard-to -reach trig

A difficult approach

by wicklore 12 Apr 2014

A view of the trig pillar looking north towards the Great Sugarloaf in the hazy distance. The immediate summit area of Dunrahill is forest-free, although my approach from the south involved negotiating several hundred metres of dense, difficult forest. I used my compass in the forest (crawling in several places) to keep in the right direction. I saw a substantial forest track near the summit but I didn't find any Coillte entrance gate anywhere around the hill. The forest -bashing exercise made this hill harder to summit than one might expect for a hill of its size. The GPS I uploaded onto MountainViews can be found here: http://mountainviews.ie/track/2459/ Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/15990/

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Picture from eamonoc : Highway to heaven

Picture: Highway to heaven

God sent path to Dunran

by eamonoc 16 Apr 2014

In case anyone shudders at the thought of a 100mt crawl through dense forest take the highway to heaven. Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/16013/